World Briefing | Asia: Kazakhstan: Terror Cell Broken Up

By C.J. Chivers (NYT)

Published: November 12, 2004

The government announced that it had disrupted a terror cell that was training women to be suicide bombers and committing robberies to underwrite its activities and was affiliated with Al Qaeda. The group, the Central Asia Mujahedeen Jamaat, was led by former members of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, which the United States has classified as a terror organization, the government said, and its members, many of whom have been arrested, possessed literature inciting religious war, as well as weapons, faked passports and bomb-making gear. A security official said that the group operated in Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Russia and participated in attacks this year in Tashkent, the Uzbek capital, according to Interfax. C.J. Chivers (NYT)